Artist: MAX ERNST
Painting Name: PIETA OR REVOLUTION BY NIGHT Year Made: 1923 Medium: OIL PAINT ON CANVAS Size: 1162 x 889 mm
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Color work. Oil Pastels This past week, we worked on using colors in our work. My favorite way of using the colors was with oil pastels! Using this technique is more understandable for me. I loved how it's easier to blend the colors better than using the other techniques. I'm not even close to being finished, but I used blue and white to show the color values. It's so much easier for me to blend and bring out the colors this way. The blue just automatically faded and became darker when I used the oil pastels. It's a really nice feeling when you finally get the picture to go the way you want it to. The white helped pull out the blue and make it softer, which I really liked. Colored pencils
This drawing is all using colored pencils. I absolutely hated it. My dad always told me that when coloring you have to color in the same direction of strokes the entire time... which I don't do. I scribble. No matter how hard I try, I always scribble and color hard. I tried really hard to make the colors blend better together, but that didn't happen. The whole "using the colors opposite the color wheel" to create shadows and depth just don't click in my head. I just see two very different colors looking ugly, haha. Man/ Machine Art Work Artist Communicate Through Their Art. Originally I had a totally different picture in my mind. I really do hate technology, with a passion. I wanted to draw a picture showing the happy natural side of an animal and then split it right down the middle and have the second half robotic themed and look evil or bad in a way... turns out that it's really hard to portray what you want through drawing. So I turned to another aspect of mine, I really like the cartoonish appeal. I drew a half boy and half robot, the outcome is really cool. It shows how we're human, but underneath the surface is a robot. Technology is slowly running into everyone's life. My drawing shows exactly how I feel, "technology overrun". I probably sound like a crazy person, but that's how I feel. The robot is smiling and waving so it seems nice and pleasant, but it's really slowly taking over the boy.. crazy. Artist Collaborate.
My freshmen year of high school I was really close with one of my friends who took art. Her name was Jessenia, we had our sign language class together and she was always drawing! She drew amazingly, she showed me how to shade in and blend pencil really well. I decided to use this new little technique with my man/machine art work. Since the drawing had to be in black and white I used my pencil for everything except the outline and "title". The shading and blending is evident in the whole drawing. I would just color over the whole part I wanted shaded and then took my finger to smear it and blend it. I'm so glad Jessenia showed me how to do this a few years ago. She really helped me, without even realizing it. ARTIST JOHANNES VERMEER
PAINTING NAME: "GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING YEAR MADE: 1665 MEDIUM CREATED IN: OIL ON CANVAS Size: 44.5cm x 39cm Vermeer had no particular portrait in mind when he made this. The background actually isn't black, it's more of a greenish tint BUT the translucent glaze over makes it blackish. |